Taking a stand : contemporary US stand-up comedians as public intellectuals /

"Stand-up comedians have a long history of walking a careful line between serious and playful engagement with social issues: Lenny Bruce questioned the symbolic valence of racial slurs, Dick Gregory took time away from the stage to speak alongside Martin Luther King Jr., and-more recently-Tig N...

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Other Authors: Champion, Jared N. (Editor), Kunze, Peter C. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2021]
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